[108248] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: rackmount managed PDUs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Smiley)
Thu Sep 25 17:01:15 2008
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:01:03 -0700
From: "Michael Smiley" <smiley@zo.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org, streiner@cluebyfour.org
In-Reply-To: <80e7195b0809251040we535233q95ae9fc09815ea9b@mail.gmail.com>
Reply-To: smiley@zo.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
I am a huge fan of the Avocent/Cyclades gear for its integration with the
serial console servers. They do grouping, and alerts over SNMP/SMS/email.
But the big seller for me is the integration.
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Duane Waddle <duane.waddle@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Justin Shore <justin@justinshore.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Justin M. Streiner wrote:
> >
> > One thing to be aware of with the vertical PDUs is where they get
> mounted.
>
> We've had lots of success with both APC and Baytech units. A lot of
> the Baytech units ONLY have RS-232. Ditto on the mounting issues with
> the vertical -- deeper and/or wider cabinets seem to reduce a lot of
> the pain. On our next buildout we're looking at the Panduit CS1
> cabinets which are both deeper and wider.
>
> --D
>
>
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